Typical Sony Bull$hit. Me and my band, $sysR00TK1T, tried to get a recording contract with Sony, we sent them a demo tape, but they didn't even notice.
Lucky you, I just installed it and after the obligatory restart, it just doesn't work. It loads cnn.com, google.com but it will not load slashdot.org nor gmail. It just crashes.
I think I'll uninstall (if I can?!) and go back to using firefox and opera...
Talking on the phone while driving ought to be banned. It's highly distracting.
Go ahead and eat french fries, sip coffee, listen to the radio while you're driving. None of these require your undivided attention. Talking to another person who is not in the same car *is* distracting and does require some significant part of your attention. It's extremely dangerous and should be illegal. Any competent driver knows this and can corroborate this statement.
You're moving at 45 mph. Your primary mission is to drive safely, not to discuss what you're having for dinner or what your friend said to your other friend or whether you should go in for an interview with XYZ company. I see this happening all the time and it's frightening.
My joke makes the assumption that you're either aware of the original, or you're a fencing geek, or you're a slashdot geek with no significant prior knowledge of either domain. Any way, you get it. I like to make people laugh. Call it open source humor.
Who cares? If I close 20 of them and open 40 more, it's still not a problem. I have to quit every few days anyway, or if I decide to install a new extension, and sessionsaver makes that painless. I have never seen firefox consume more than 400MB and that's with heavy, heavy use with maybe 100 tabs open. Opera does better, and I use it too (simultaneously), but still, it's not a problem.
What is this memory leak people keep talking about? What kind of bizarre sites are you people visiting? I have had 60 tabs open in two separate windows for weeks, mostly I use tabs as a way of keeping stuff around that I *might* read someday. I use seesionsaver so that everything comes back as I left it after I quit. I only quit every few days, or if I need to restart windows. Firefox with 60 tabs open consumes about 200-300 megs of memory, and that's with *heavy use*, reloading some of those pages, posting forms here and there, loading random sites with flash video and java applets and gmail and ajax and whatnot.
Every so often I quit firefox and restart it, mostly when I need to restart because the host OS forces me to (Windows XP is a drag sometimes).
Fact is, firefox works pretty well considering what I throw at it. If it doesn't work as well for you, something else is wrong. I have a 512MB laptop. Firefox is rock-solid stable for me. I run adblock, flashblock, google web accelerator, bugmenot, nukeanything, and a couple other minor extensions.
The way things are going in America, what with the offshore prison camps, pervasive domestic surveillence, corporations trampling individual rights by suing their customers, and runaway executive power, maybe it should be stopped.
Not that the Chinese/Indian alternatives are necessarily better, but America is rapidly deteriorating.
Digg is getting better fast. They implemented barebones threaded discussion not long ago and I'll eat my hat if they don't add adjectives to moderation fairly soon. They've got problems (more dupes than slashdot, for one), but they're moving fast.
It's nice that you're adding features, but could you repeal the permanent mod point bans on some of us? There are people here who read and contribute and would like to moderate but never get a chance. I don't want to create another userid and wait another six months until it "matures".
Just give us back our occasional mod points, and maybe explain what we did wrong which caused them to be taken away in the first place.
And also, could you please add a place where we can discuss this very sort of thing and not be modded offtopic?
This site depends on its users. I'm a user. You're supposed to listen to me.
You're permanently stuck in the past, refusing to accept device convergence, improvements in designs...
Fuck that shit, I've got a 1970s KLH radio receiver too, it sits up on the shelf and picks up AM and FM radio waves extremely reliably, then it plays them out loud. I get to select the channel with a sensitive potentiometer. No nonsense.
Maybe I am getting old. But I have a feeling that my electronics will outlast yours.
any self-respecting phone would incorporate at least a megapixel camera
Dammit, I've already got a phone (an old Nokia candybar model that has a wonderful interface and battery life and no stupid camera). Any self-respecting phone should be just a phone. If I want to take along my camera, I'll do so.
I'm hoping my current phone doesn't break so I don't have to involuntarily "upgrade" to the next model which has countless features I don't want and an interface whose designers I want to reciprocally torture by redesigning their TV so that changing channels requires multiple button presses in even the most common case. Gah *head explodes*.
Try being a regular 50-year old bearded guy who likes wearing a black turtleneck and jeans. I wasn't into Apple until some hippy college kid tried to get me to listen to what he was playing on this newfangled "iPod" thing. I had to smack him down with my WinCE PDA. Anyway, it's not a list you want to be on.
It all comes down to economic incentives and laziness. Right now it is cheaper to mine new metals and process raw oil to make the plastics and wires that make up our disposable electronics. Right now it is cheaper to toss them into a landfill or ship them to China for children to disassemble and extract and recover what's worth recovering. Right now it is cheaper to drill holes in the ground and dig out the fossil fuels than to figure out a new way to produce energy.
When the equation changes, we'll figure out a better way and we'll gradually start doing something different. This pattern hasn't changed for centuries.
An interesting business idea (unpatented as of yet) for you speculative investors, would be to collect and safely store (in landfills, or wherever) large amounts of technological waste of known quality (say, cellphones and ipods only, no monitors, or something). Then sit on it for a few decades, and wait for mining and recovery/recycling technology to catch up. Sort of like buying up land that has oil shale on it. You know we'll probably need it someday.
Slashdot Mirror
It grows larger every day, please help!
This November we shall be kicking out Santorum instead.
Typical Sony Bull$hit. Me and my band, $sysR00TK1T, tried to get a recording contract with Sony, we sent them a demo tape, but they didn't even notice.
Sigh.
Bah. Your slashdot userid is too high to remember that. Unless... unless... you were *conceived* during such an ecstatic moment.
On that day, I'll be long dead and so will my Moravec-inspired uploaded mind-children.
Lucky you, I just installed it and after the obligatory restart, it just doesn't work. It loads cnn.com, google.com but it will not load slashdot.org nor gmail. It just crashes. I think I'll uninstall (if I can?!) and go back to using firefox and opera...
So how do you test 9-volt batteries then, if not with your tongue?
We've been using that word to mean exactly that since before your dad met your mom on CompuServe.
In Soviet Russia, duplicate comments repost YOU.
How about a coupon for free junk food (in exchange for some of your personal information, like your name and address where they can mail the coupon)?
No, we couldn't, because the content provider will set the "ad" flag during key parts of the actual program, which you don't want to miss.
OMG Clockwork Orange jokes.
'Nuff said.
Go ahead and eat french fries, sip coffee, listen to the radio while you're driving. None of these require your undivided attention. Talking to another person who is not in the same car *is* distracting and does require some significant part of your attention. It's extremely dangerous and should be illegal. Any competent driver knows this and can corroborate this statement.
You're moving at 45 mph. Your primary mission is to drive safely, not to discuss what you're having for dinner or what your friend said to your other friend or whether you should go in for an interview with XYZ company. I see this happening all the time and it's frightening.
Although as others have noted it's an amalgamation of a popular bash.org quote and my own silly cracked-up mind.
FWIW, quokkapox
My joke makes the assumption that you're either aware of the original, or you're a fencing geek, or you're a slashdot geek with no significant prior knowledge of either domain. Any way, you get it. I like to make people laugh. Call it open source humor.
P2P: Forward slash. Riposte.
ISP: Touche. QOS Packet Filtering!
P2P. Lunge. Encryption!
ISP: En guard. Subpoena compliance.
P2P: Aahaaah! Ubiquitous Mesh Networks.
ISP: Arrrgh! [dies].
Where is BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?
Who cares? If I close 20 of them and open 40 more, it's still not a problem. I have to quit every few days anyway, or if I decide to install a new extension, and sessionsaver makes that painless. I have never seen firefox consume more than 400MB and that's with heavy, heavy use with maybe 100 tabs open. Opera does better, and I use it too (simultaneously), but still, it's not a problem.
Every so often I quit firefox and restart it, mostly when I need to restart because the host OS forces me to (Windows XP is a drag sometimes).
Fact is, firefox works pretty well considering what I throw at it. If it doesn't work as well for you, something else is wrong. I have a 512MB laptop. Firefox is rock-solid stable for me. I run adblock, flashblock, google web accelerator, bugmenot, nukeanything, and a couple other minor extensions.
Not that the Chinese/Indian alternatives are necessarily better, but America is rapidly deteriorating.
Digg is getting better fast. They implemented barebones threaded discussion not long ago and I'll eat my hat if they don't add adjectives to moderation fairly soon. They've got problems (more dupes than slashdot, for one), but they're moving fast.
Just give us back our occasional mod points, and maybe explain what we did wrong which caused them to be taken away in the first place.
And also, could you please add a place where we can discuss this very sort of thing and not be modded offtopic?
This site depends on its users. I'm a user. You're supposed to listen to me.
Fuck that shit, I've got a 1970s KLH radio receiver too, it sits up on the shelf and picks up AM and FM radio waves extremely reliably, then it plays them out loud. I get to select the channel with a sensitive potentiometer. No nonsense.
Maybe I am getting old. But I have a feeling that my electronics will outlast yours.
Dammit, I've already got a phone (an old Nokia candybar model that has a wonderful interface and battery life and no stupid camera). Any self-respecting phone should be just a phone. If I want to take along my camera, I'll do so.
I'm hoping my current phone doesn't break so I don't have to involuntarily "upgrade" to the next model which has countless features I don't want and an interface whose designers I want to reciprocally torture by redesigning their TV so that changing channels requires multiple button presses in even the most common case. Gah *head explodes*.
Try being a regular 50-year old bearded guy who likes wearing a black turtleneck and jeans. I wasn't into Apple until some hippy college kid tried to get me to listen to what he was playing on this newfangled "iPod" thing. I had to smack him down with my WinCE PDA. Anyway, it's not a list you want to be on.
When the equation changes, we'll figure out a better way and we'll gradually start doing something different. This pattern hasn't changed for centuries.
An interesting business idea (unpatented as of yet) for you speculative investors, would be to collect and safely store (in landfills, or wherever) large amounts of technological waste of known quality (say, cellphones and ipods only, no monitors, or something). Then sit on it for a few decades, and wait for mining and recovery/recycling technology to catch up. Sort of like buying up land that has oil shale on it. You know we'll probably need it someday.